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Her Review

    Dating is hard enough with people and technology today, I can't even imagine what Theodore had to go through in Spike Jonze's beautifully sad love story, Her. Thedore(J. Phoenix) is a writer who has gone through a divorce. He's sad, his life seeming to be devoid of any love or connection, until he installs Samantha, an Operating System with artificial intelligence. Eventually they fall in love, they live, and you want it to work so badly. You're so happy he finds happiness, but does it last? Can they make it work? I can't say much more to spoil the movie, but what a movie.    It paints a futuristic world that seems all to real, human beings connected to the world with technology, yet growing farther and farther from each other and human interaction. People talk into their devices all the time, oblivious to the beauty of the world around them. It really begs the question for the future as he and Samantha fall in love, what is dating? What can you consider a rel